ForenSix Opposition - Politics in the Soon To Be Former UK in Autumn 2020

Keir is committed to working constructively with King Herod in the national interest. Under 'new leadership', the party has raised their concerns with the Home Secretary about his policy of the massacre of the newborns - however calling for resignations now would be unhelpful.

— Jack |🌹✊🏿🏳️‍🌈| This is Airstrip-One Calling (@AlebionShrugged) December 18, 2020

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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: An emergency toughening of Covid restrictions could be announced as soon as tomorrow after the PM was handed alarming new evidence of the virulence of a mutant strain of the virus https://t.co/CFT9Vr9pKQ

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 18, 2020

Another great ‘announcement via leak to a paywalled news website’.

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Exclusive: Alarming new evidence on Coronavirus mutation could bring tougher restrictions

The Prime Minister called an unscheduled meeting of senior ministers on Friday night to discuss how to contain the new variant

By Amy Jones, Political Correspondent and Gordon Rayner, Political Editor 18 December 2020 • 8:32pm
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An emergency toughening of Covid restrictions could be announced as soon as Saturday after Boris Johnson was handed alarming new evidence of the
transmissibility of a mutant strain of the virus.

The Prime Minister called an unscheduled meeting of senior ministers on Friday night to discuss how to contain the new variant, which has so far
been largely confined to London and the South East.

Travel restrictions are among the measures under discussion, with one source suggesting the Government could even restrict travel between the
South East and other parts of the country.

An alternative would be to ban commuters from travelling into London, after the mutant strain, which originated in Kent, spread rapidly to
London and then the home counties.

Much of the South East was put into Tier 3 by the Government only on Thursday, but the new information about the transmissibility of the mutant
strain was so worrying that ministers fear they may have to act immediately.

Government scientists at the Porton Down laboratory in Wiltshire have been conducting experiments on the new strain, and have confirmed
ministers' fears about it being far more infectious than the original strain of the virus.

One source in the scientific community said there were "concerns in government" about the new strain after the evidence was presented to
ministers on Friday afternoon.

"The evidence that the new strain of the virus more easily transmits from one person to another has hardened up," said the source.

The meeting of ministers was expected to continue late into the night, with Whitehall sources refusing to rule out a press conference on
Saturday to announce additional restrictions.

Mr Johnson has been adamant that he will not change the law allowing up to three households to get together over Christmas, but has already
advised families to keep their "bubbles" as small as possible.

you can get around the paywall with a text-only browser

sounds bad tbh

ty Plax,

The situation in Kent is dire - Medway and Swale both have 750+ cases per 100k, per week - and there are pockets where the rate is over 1000.

I am hearing of new cases among people I know and colleagues literally every day now, by far the most it has been since the start.

This “virulent strain” thing got widely dismissed earlier in the week, but those Kent numbers are really stark.

talk about stark, Hastings has gone from lowest rate in England to 589/100,000 in the space of a few weeks. wtf

don't think I've posted about this on the board but my dad currently has covid, which he caught in hospital while having an operation for bowel cancer.

is there anything else this year would like to do to me?

Fucking hell, I’m really sorry to hear that, CP. I can only wish you and your dad all the best.

Ugh, so sorry

Silver lining…

Hancock added: “I must stress at this point that there is currently nothing to suggest that this variant is more likely to cause serious disease and the latest clinical advice is that it’s highly unlikely that this mutation would fail to respond to a vaccine."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/18/boris-johnson-calls-crisis-meeting-to-discuss-response-to-new-covid-strain

really not a fucking time to be exporting london residents to the rest of the country in a tight time-limited window and telling people to “be careful”.

Don't worry, I'm sure no petty personal issues will discourage Johnson from cancelling Christmas

meanwhile the Today programme has just done a Foucault for dummies segment

the mutant strain, which originated in Kent

👀 no comment

We are pioneers. We also had the first confirmed death outside of China, back in December 2019.

Thankfully this hasn’t stopped the Detling Winter Wonderland from taking place, though.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/cars-at-standstill-on-a249-for-winter-wonderland-event-239535/

We also have a 20-mile-long lorry jam, with no facilities / sanitation, stretching from Dover as companies try to export as much stuff as possible to Europe before the 31st.

Out before the lock

GLUK etc

fair play never thought the engineer a national crisis so we can cosplay downton abbey and dad’s army crowe would have such good praxis.

crowd! why the fuck would you autocorrect crowd to crowe ffs!

Dad's Army is already boring and unfunny enough without adding a humourless prick like Russell Crowe to it!

I was going Cameron Crowe bc Brexit

Shingles

the thought of hundreds of those repulsive HGV driving beasts that stink of BO and look like amateur wrestlers, scrambling up embankments to take a shit, that's the true spirit of brexit!

morelike Shites of the Road ... amirite

Getcha Brexit fertiliser here mate nyah nyah you numpty you gotta laugh intcha, that Nigel Farage you could have a pint with him eh not like That Bloody Corbyn etc etc

Here we go....

Nothing says the end of the British state like an account called 'Carolin64723572' cancelling Christmas pic.twitter.com/Es9XieaHmD

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) December 19, 2020

Wheeler is reporting the link via an unverified alt as she lost her password.

fuck's sake i'm really sorry affected ilxors

Fucking devastated if this is true, ngl.

So,

1) What is Tier 4?
2) what is south east?

my sources say the death penalty being considered for christmas. I am pro-christmas and take no pleasure in reporting this.

Tier 4 is when a plague doctor paints a cross on your door and their is a 24 hour military curfew.

So, jesus is coming down and it's the start of the Rapture. But only on the Isle of Wight...

international travel not advised

sad to hear captain tom moore (currently in barbados wtf) is cancelled

That rule only applies to real people, made up py ops are exempt.

Lol psy ops

is rishi going to refund all the money that people have already spent on big christmas dinners, travel etc. sister-in-common-law is going to have some mission putting away all the food she'd bought fs

also where's my piss5 voucher rishi u wee fuck

Piss5s for Turkeys trade in

I’d have been shiting on about how terrible it was if they hadnt done this with cases getting out of control and lockdowns coming down like dominos all over Europe but that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna complain about it now obv

So many people gonna be distraught after having this false promise dangled in front of them

Hundreds of people dying every day and Christmas cancelled, def worth it for 3 weeks of joyless scotch egg boozing tho obv

at least in part because the cunt prime minister didn't have the guts to be honest about this a month or more back and manage expectations

big sympathy for others but of course i dunno whether i'm in "the east" or not yet

Despairing lol at this thing about the mutant strain forcing them to cancel, rather than the numbers that have been rising steadily for months

“I’d love to let you have Christmas, folks, but the MUTANT STRAIN had other ideas, nobody’s fault”

Yeah that excuse came fucking gift wrapped for them, cunts must have thought Chr***mas had come early

he was taunting Kiermit with "you want to cancel Christmas" when? This week?

Muppets christmas carol

I’m so furious. We’ve got no food in the house cos we’d planned a Christmas bubble. Now, I need to go to my local supermarket, in a shopping centre on the Sat before Christmas, in London’s COVID hotspot, all because these cunts buried their heads in the sand and ignored reality.

— alex hern (@alexhern) December 19, 2020

This is fkn incredible

How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/eNcDpvuYLX

— 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐀 𝐏𝐇𝐏𝐁𝐁 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐔𝐌 🅰🅳🅼🅸🅽 (@TypingOfTheRed) December 19, 2020